SECRET SHIPMENT OF PLUTONIUM FROM EUROPE TO JAPAN LED TO PLANT EXPLOSION

SECRET SHIPMENT OF PLUTONIUM FROM EUROPE TO JAPAN LED TO PLANT EXPLOSION

SECRET SHIPMENT OF NUCLEAR BOMB MATERIAL FROMEUROPE TO JAPAN

OVER the next few weeks, two ships carrying a secret cargo of dangerous, nuclear weapons-usable plutonium fuel will leave ports in Britain and France and sail around the globe to Japan. On board will be fuel containing more plutonium than in the entire Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons programmes.(1)

The two British flagged vessels, the Pacific Teal and the Pacific Pintail, will leave Barrow in Britain and Cherbourg in France carrying the first commercial shipment to Japan of mixed-oxide (MOX) reactor fuel, made from plutonium and uranium. An estimated 446 kilograms of plutonium is contained in the 40 nuclear fuel elements – enough fissile material to construct 60 nuclear bombs. T

The first plant to use MOX is scheduled to be Fukushima 1, plant. The date has been set to August 22nd, 2010.

Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said it was preparing to restart the 784 megawatt No.3 reactor at its Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear using Mox fuel (PLUTONIUM) on its plant on Friday, at which it is set to burn so-called mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel for the first time in Japan's history

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The MOX controversy : A recent controversy involving the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been the use of mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel. MOX is a mixture of plutonium and uranium, an extremely powerful and potentially explosive element. In 2009 Greenpeace protested against shipments of MOX from France to Japan. According to Reuters and Japan Today, the no. 3 at Fukushima Daiichi was to be loaded with MOX in 2010.

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Reactors of units 1, 2, and 6 are supplied by General Electric, units 3 and 5 are supplied by Toshiba, and unit 4 by Hitachi. The architecture for General Electric's units was done by Ebasco. All construction is done by Kajima.[2] From September 2010, unit 3 has been fueled by mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel.[3][4]

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Monday, Aug. 23, 2010

Fukushima reactor receives MOXFUKUSHIMA (Kyodo) Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Saturday loaded a nuclear reactor in Fukushima Prefecture with MOX, a controversial fuel made with reprocessed plutonium and uranium oxides, as it prepares to become the leading power utility's first facility to go pluthermal.

Mixing it up: A MOX fuel rod on Saturday is loaded into a nuclear reactor in Fukushima Prefecture. KYODO PHOTOThe No. 3 reactor at Tepco's Fukushima No. 1 plant will be the nation's third pluthermal facility, but only the first to be refurbished since the plant was built 34 years ago.

Tokyo Electric plans to activate the reactor on Sept. 18 and let it start generating electricity on Sept. 23

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Monday, Aug. 23, 2010

Fukushima reactor receives MOXFUKUSHIMA (Kyodo) Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Saturday loaded a nuclear reactor in Fukushima Prefecture with MOX, a controversial fuel made with reprocessed plutonium and uranium oxides, as it prepares to become the leading power utility's first facility to go pluthermal.

Mixing it up: A MOX fuel rod on Saturday is loaded into a nuclear reactor in Fukushima Prefecture. KYODO PHOTOThe No. 3 reactor at Tepco's Fukushima No. 1 plant will be the nation's third pluthermal facility, but only the first to be refurbished since the plant was built 34 years ago.

Tokyo Electric plans to activate the reactor on Sept. 18 and let it start generating electricity on Sept. 23

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Here are three articles...

Japanese Waste and MOX Shipments From Europe - World Nuclear ...Japanese waste and MOX shipments, information on the transport of MOX fuel and waste to Japan following reprocessing at THORP and La Hague by BNG and Areva.www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf39.html - Cached -

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God Almighty.

If any of these reactors go super-critical with Plutonium cores, and the containment vessel is ruptured, releasing even several kilograms of PU could conceivably KILL A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE SURFACE OF THE PLANET.